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Stay calm situation under control- PNP
By Nidz Godino
“We are mobilizing all investigative assets and leveraging every capability to ensure these incidents do not recur,” Philippine National Police chief Gen. Rommel Marbil assured members of the Filipino-Chinese community of their safety and security. In the wake of recent kidnap-slay of Filipino-Chinese steel magnate Anson Que and his driver Armanie Pabillo, Marbil and other senior PNP officials met with representatives of Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry Inc. (FFCCCII) at Camp Crame to address concerns within Filipino-Chinese community following kidnapping cases that have raised worries within business sector and general public. PNP has documented 13 kidnapping cases since January. Eight of the incidents involved Chinese nationals as victims.
Marbil assured FFCCCII that PNP is exerting all efforts to arrest Que’s killers and suspects in other kidnapping cases as he urged federation members to stay calm.
PNP and FFCCCII have agreed to establish collaborative program focused on proactive measures to detect potential threats.
Among these are enhancing coordination with territorial police units, strengthening surveillance efforts in key business hubs and providing safety briefings to member companies and communities.
Marbil maintained that the country remains safe for business and travel despite Que’s killing, stressing PNP remains vigilant and responsive to any threat to peace and order.
“We call for calm and unity…these isolated incidents do not define our nation,” he said.
FFCCCII along with several other business groups issued strongly worded statement, decrying Que’s murder and saying recent kidnappings are not “isolated incidents.”
They demanded “swift and unrelenting” action as they rejected “empty platitudes, hollow theories, bureaucratic inertia that too often follow such horrors.”
“We call for unyielding reinforcement of rule of law not through rhetoric, but through resolute, systemic reform,” FFCCCII declared.
Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla said inter-agency task force will be created to handle kidnapping cases.
Remulla said task force will be composed of Department of Justice, Department of the Interior and Local Government, PNP, National Bureau of Investigation and Bureau of Immigration.
“Creation of task force is paramount… aim here is to have higher visibility, leadership people can talk to if there is problem,” he said at press conference, noting that a lot of people have doubts about law enforcement.
Remulla said hotlines will be set up where people can call in tips, report crimes and whatever else community may need. Supreme Court will also be asked to create special courts to handle kidnapping cases.
Remulla said creation of task force will be “drawn up” and result will be announced next week. Group of Chinese nationals acting as henchmen of illegal Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGOs) are being investigated for their possible involvement in the murder of Que and his driver.
Special investigation task group formed by PNP is looking at group’s connection with Que’s killing as their signature is the same as other killings they allegedly perpetrated.
Brig. Gen. Jean Fajardo, spokesperson for the PNP, said the way Que and his driver were killed is similar to the fate of another Chinese national and his driver who were killed and his body dumped somewhere in Rizal province sometime in 2024.
Que and Pabillo were found hogtied, their faces covered in duct tape and their bodies placed inside nylon sack in Barangay Macabud in Rodriguez, Rizal on Wednesday morning.
They were killed by strangulation, similar to the two other victims last year.
“There is similarity in another incident involving also Chinese national last year, we may be looking at the same modus operandi,” Fajardo said at news briefing in Camp Crame.
Chinese nationals were tagged by Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission as muscle group of POGO operators.
Fajardo said group’s function is to threaten people who owe POGO operators money. “They are the ones who collect allegedly from those who have debts in relation to POGO operations,” she said.
At previous briefing, Fajardo said they are looking at whether Que’s death is related to POGOs but she did not elaborate.
Members of muscle group were also used by POGO operators to torture employees who fail to reach their daily quota, with some incidents caught on video.
While SITG has yet to establish number of suspects in Que’s murder, Fajardo said it could not have been executed by just two or three persons.
Meanwhile, Malacañang asked Honeylet Avanceña, common-law wife of detained former president Rodrigo Duterte, not to mock recent spate of deadly kidnappings in the country.
At press briefing, Presidential Communications Undersecretary Claire Castro was asked to comment on Avanceña’s apparently sarcastic statement congratulating Marcos administration for recent spate of high-profile kidnappings and killings.
“We do not make fun of this kind of situation…for Ms. Honeylet Avanceña, please don’t create issue because lives are at stake here…lives were lost… do not make issue and make fun of government, we don’t know why Ms. Honeylet has this attitude…it’s as if she is happy that there are incidents like these in the country,” Castro said.
House assistant majority leader and Lanao del Sur Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong defended PNP’s report showing decline in national crime rate, adding that Que’s case should not be used to discredit nationwide data.
“One incident cannot just overrun and overhaul data gathered by PNP,” Adiong said.
According to Marbil, their data show 26.76 percent drop in focus crimes from 4,817 cases between Jan. 1 and Feb. 14, 2024 down to 3,528 in the same period this year.
Year-on-year data also reflected 7.31-percent decrease in focus crimes, from 41,717 cases in 2023 to 38,667 in 2024.
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